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In this paper we develop an intrinsic formalism to study the topology, smooth structure, and Riemannian geometry of the Wasserstein space of a closed Riemannian manifold. Our formalism allows for a new characterisation of the Weak topology…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-17 André Magalhães de Sá Gomes , Christian S. Rodrigues , Luiz A. B. San Martin

We study the geometry of the space of measures of a compact ultrametric space X, endowed with the L^p Wasserstein distance from optimal transportation. We show that the power p of this distance makes this Wasserstein space affinely…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-04 Benoît Kloeckner

In this note, we provide a smooth variational principle on Wasserstein space by constructing a smooth gauge-type function using the sliced Wasserstein distance. This function is a crucial tool for optimization problems and in viscosity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Erhan Bayraktar , Ibrahim Ekren , Xin Zhang

In this paper, we introduce a robust market making framework based on Wasserstein distance, utilizing a stochastic policy approach enhanced by entropy regularization. We demonstrate that, under mild assumptions, the robust market making…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-03-07 Zhou Fang , Arie Israel

We define a metric in the space of positive finite positive measures that extends the 2-Wasserstein metric, i.e. its restriction to the set of probability measures is the 2-Wasserstein metric. We prove a dual and a dynamic formulation and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Hugo Leblanc , Thibaut Le Gouic , Jacques Liandrat , Magali Tournus

We build on recent work linking backward and forward W2-projections in convex order with the recently introduced metric extrapolation problem to derive new quantitative stability estimates for both problems.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Jakwang Kim , Young-Heon Kim , Andrea Natale

We investigate the notion of Wasserstein median as an alternative to the Wasserstein barycenter, which has become popular but may be sensitive to outliers. In terms of robustness to corrupted data, we indeed show that Wasserstein medians…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Guillaume Carlier , Enis Chenchene , Katharina Eichinger

We propose a novel objective for penalizing geometric inconsistencies to improve the depth and pose estimation performance of monocular camera images. Our objective is designed using the Wasserstein distance between two point clouds,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Noriaki Hirose , Satoshi Koide , Keisuke Kawano , Ruho Kondo

The aim of this short paper is to offer a complete characterization of all (not necessarily surjective) isometric embeddings of the Wasserstein space $\mathcal{W}_p(\mathcal{X})$, where $\mathcal{X}$ is a countable discrete metric space and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-23 György Pál Gehér , Tamás Titkos , Dániel Virosztek

Wasserstein metrics are increasingly being used as similarity scores for images treated as discrete measures on a grid, yet their behavior under noise remains poorly understood. In this work, we consider the sensitivity of the signed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Erik Lager , Gilles Mordant , Amit Moscovich

Wasserstein distortion is a one-parameter family of distortion measures that was recently proposed to unify fidelity and realism constraints. After establishing continuity results for Wasserstein in the extreme cases of pure fidelity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yang Qiu , Aaron B. Wagner

We present a simple approach to study the one-dimensional pressureless Euler system via adhesion dynamics in the Wasserstein space of probability measures with finite quadratic moments. Starting from a discrete system of a finite number of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Luca Natile , Giuseppe Savaré

Variational problems that involve Wasserstein distances have been recently proposed to summarize and learn from probability measures. Despite being conceptually simple, such problems are computationally challenging because they involve…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-26 Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré

This paper will introduce a family of sliced Wasserstein geodesics which are not standard Wasserstein geodesics, objects yet to be discovered in the literature. These objects exhibit how the geometric structure of the Sliced Wasserstein…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-11 John Seale Hopper

The quadratic Wasserstein metric has shown its power in measuring the difference between probability densities, which benefits optimization objective function with better convexity and is insensitive to data noise. Nevertheless, it is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-28 Zhengyang Li , Yijia Tang , Jing Chen , Hao Wu

We study the Wasserstein (or earthmover) metric on the space $P(X)$ of probability measures on a metric space $X$. We show that, if a finite metric space $X$ embeds stochastically with distortion $D$ in a family of finite metric trees, then…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Maxime Mathey-Prevot , Alain Valette

We propose to study and promote the robustness of a model as per its performance through the interpolation of training data distributions. Specifically, (1) we augment the data by finding the worst-case Wasserstein barycenter on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jiacheng Zhu , Jielin Qiu , Aritra Guha , Zhuolin Yang , Xuanlong Nguyen , Bo Li , Ding Zhao

Euclidean embeddings of data are fundamentally limited in their ability to capture latent semantic structures, which need not conform to Euclidean spatial assumptions. Here we consider an alternative, which embeds data as discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Charlie Frogner , Farzaneh Mirzazadeh , Justin Solomon

We propose of an improved version of the ubiquitous symmetrization inequality making use of the Wasserstein distance between a measure and its reflection in order to quantify the symmetry of the given measure. An empirical bound on this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Adam B Kashlak

Recently Guduru and coworkers have demonstrated with neat theory and experiments that both increase of strength and of toughness are possible in the contact of a rigid sphere with concentric single scale of waviness, against a very soft…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-03 M. Ciavarella